FORT LAUDERDALE – The protection group for the convicted Parkland mass shooter requested the decide to declare a mistrial at his sentencing trial over a call to permit the jury to see swastika drawings he made almost a decade in the past.
Judge Elizabeth Scherer denied the movement.
The jury then heard from a former eighth grade language arts trainer who stored notes and paperwork from the time the shooter was in her class from 2013 to 2014.
“He made me uncomfortable and was on my radar,” stated Carrie Yon, who testified remotely Thursday explaining her first impressions of the shooter when he attended Westglades Middle School in Parkland.
Yon stated the shooter was a poor scholar who scribbled on assignments, flunked exams, cursed and drew inappropriate footage like stick figures capturing one another.
She stated he as soon as did a mission entitled: “the sex boat.”
Yon stated she grew to become afraid of the shooter and felt he was a hazard.
“He was impulsive, erratic; anything to get attention or not do the work,” she stated.
She additionally stated she spoke to his mom in September 2013 about rewarding him with an Xbox, and discussing his obsession with weapons.
Retired principal John Vesey testified that in the direction of the top of eighth grade a call was made to ship the shooter to an alternate faculty for emotionally disabled kids.
“His needs were too extreme,” stated Vesey.
Vesey was additionally requested if he knew that ultimately the shooter was mainstreamed again to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, the place he would kill 17 individuals in 2018.
Vesey stated he was conscious and wouldn’t have supported the choice to ship him there a couple of years earlier than the bloodbath.
And he stated he regretted not warning the MSD school concerning the shooter’s historical past at his center faculty.
